Select One Book Below for the Book Review

McIntyre, Alice. Making meaning of whiteness exploring racial identity with white teachers. Albany: 
State University of New York Press, 1997. 

Nagar, R. (2006). Playing with fire feminist thought and activism through seven lives in India. 
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Nespor, Jan. Tangled up in school: politics, space, bodies, and signs in the educational process. Mahwah, 
N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997. 

History of Qual Research in Ed

Boote, D. N., & Beile, P. (2005). Scholars before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation literature review in research preparation. 
Educational Researcher, 34(6), 3–15.

Erickan, K., & Roth, W.M. (2006). What good is polarizing research into qualitative and quantitative? Educational Researcher, 35(5), 14–23.

Jacob, E., & White, C. S. (2002). Editor's introduction. Educational Researcher, 31(8), 3.

Lather, P., & Moss, P. A. (2005). Introduction: Implications of the Scientific Research in Education report for qualitative inquiry. Teachers College Record, 107(1), 1–3.

Optional: Torrance, H. (2008). Building confidence in qualitative research: Engaging the demands of policy. Qualitative Inquiry, 14(4), 
507–527.

Positivism

Guba, E.G., & Lincoln, Y.S. (1994). Competing paradigms in qualitative research 

Research Exemplar (positivism): Jenkins, J. R., Dale, P. S., Mills, P. E., & Cole, K. N. (2006). How special education preschool graduates finish: 
Status at 19 years of age. American Educational Research Journal, 43(4), 737–781

Alternative Paradigms: Constructivist/Interpretivism

Smith, J. K. (1992). Interpretive inquiry: A practical and moral activity. Theory Into Practice, 31(2), 100–106.

Research Exemplar: Gordon, T., Lahelma, E., Hynninen, P., Metso, T., Palmu, T., & Tolonen, T. (1999). Learning the routines: “Professionalization” of newcomers in secondary school. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 12(6), 689–705.

Research Exemplar: Hatton, E. (1997). Hatton, E. (1997). Teacher educators and the production of bricoleurs: An ethnographic study. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 10(2), 237–258

Alternative Paradigms: Critical Theories

Lather, P. (1986b). Research as praxis. Harvard Educational Review, 56(3), 257–278.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education? International Journal of Qualitative 
Studies in Education, 11(1), 7–24.

Dilley, P. (1999). Queer theory: Under construction. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 12(5), 457–472.

St. Pierre, E. A. (2000). Poststructural feminism in education: An overview. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 
13(5), 477–515.

Optional: Parker, L. (1998). Race is race ain’t’: An exploration of the utility of critical race theory in qualitative research in education. 
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1), 43–55.

Research Exemplar: Rolon-Dow, R. (2005). Critical care: A color(full) analysis of care narratives in the schooling experiences of Puerto Rican 
girls. American Educational Research Journal, 42(1), 77–111.

Optional: Scheurich, J. J. (1996). The masks of validity: A deconstructive investigation. International journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 
9(1), 49–60.

Post paradigmatic Approaches

Lather, P. (2006). Paradigm proliferation as a good thing to think with: Teaching research in education as a wild profusion. International 
Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19(1), 35–57.

Nespor, J. (2006). Morphologies of inquiry: The uses and spaces of paradigm proliferation. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in 
Education, 19(1), 115–128.

King, J. (1999). Am not! Are too! Using queer standpoint in postmodern critical ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in 
Education, 12(5), 473–490.

Research Exemplar: Jones, A. (1999). The limits of cross-cultural dialogue: Pedagogy, desire, and absolution in the classroom. 
Educational Theory, 49(3), 299–316.

Optional: Lather, P. (1998). Critical pedagogy and its complicities: A praxis of stuck places. Educational Theory, 48(4), 487–97.

Optional: Lather, P. (2004). This is your father’s paradigm: Government intrusion and the case of qualitative research in education. Qualitative 
Inquiry, 10(1), 15–34.

Research Questions & Methodology

Agee, J. (2009). Developing qualitative research questions: A reflective process. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(4), 
431–447.

Errante, A. (2000). But sometimes you’re not part of the story: Oral histories and ways of remembering and telling. Educational Researcher, 
29(2), 16–27.

Greckhamer, T., & Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2005). The erosion of a method: Examples from grounded theory. International Journal of Qualitative 
Studies in Education (QSE), 18(6), 729–750.

Jeffrey, B., & Troman, G. (2004). Time for ethnography. British Educational Research Journal, 30(4), 535–548.

Optional: St. Pierre, E. A. (1997). Methodology in the fold and the irruption of transgressive data. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 10(2), 175–189.

Optional: Lather, P. (2008). (Post)Feminist methodology getting lost OR a scientificity we can bear to learn from. International Review of 
Qualitative Research, 1(1), 55–64.

Observations & Ethics

Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral study of obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67(4), 371–378.

Nespor, J., & Groenke, S. (2009). Ethics, problem framing, and training in qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(6), 996–1012.

Archival Data & Validity

Lincoln, Y. (1995). Emerging criteria for quality in qualitative and interpretive research. Qualitative Inquiry, 1(3), 275–289.

Optional: Lather, P. (1986a). Issues of validity in openly ideological research: Between a rock and a soft place. Interchange : A Quarterly 
Review of Education, 17(4), 63–84.

Optional: Lather, P. (1993). Fertile obsession: Validity after poststructuralism. TSQ Sociological Quarterly, 34(4), 673–693.

Optional: Scheurich, J. J., & Young, M. D. (1997). Coloring epistemologies: Are our research epistemologies racially biased? 
Educational Researcher, 26(4), 4–16.

Interpretation, Data Analysis & Writing

Roulson, K. (2001). Data analysis and “theorizing as ideology.” Qualitative Research, 1(3), 279–302.

Peshkin, A. (2000). The nature of interpretation in qualitative research. Educational Researcher, 29(9), 5–9.

Jones, S. R. (2002). (Re)writing the word: Methodological strategies and issues in qualitative research. Journal of College Student Development, 
43(4), 461–73